Latest Catch Pics Thread

[TnRiver46]

11 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

As Jimmy Houston said, "There's a lot of lures out there, but a spinnerbait is special." 

 

They bite the heck out of them where I am in NY. Not necessarily so in other places I fish. Still, if I'm fishing a spinnerbait, no matter where I am, I expect to get bit all the time. I should have fished them more over Spring break in NC.

Still waiting on my spinnerbait lesson, I can skunk with them in 50 states 

[DitchPanda]

9 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Still waiting on my spinnerbait lesson, I can skunk with them in 50 states 

I promise you...promise you 175% promise...that if you let me pick the week and flew up here I could get you on some spinner bait bass. Im so confident that if I failed to do so I would pay you back your expenses...plane ticket, lodging,food...for the week.

[LrgmouthShad]

11 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Still waiting on my spinnerbait lesson, I can skunk with them in 50 states 

If you want, I can talk with you about them. But I don't want to disrespect a couple things. I don't want to disrespect effort you've already put forth and I don't mean to cast myself out as a expert in spinnerbaits since I know there are many on this site more accomplished with them than I am. And you are a far better angler than I am. Just because I've caught a lot of fish on spinnerbaits don't mean jack.

[TnRiver46]

43 minutes ago, DitchPanda said:

I promise you...promise you 175% promise...that if you let me pick the week and flew up here I could get you on some spinner bait bass. Im so confident that if I failed to do so I would pay you back your expenses...plane ticket, lodging,food...for the week.

Flew?? I’m too scared to even get on a roller coaster much less an airplane!!! Thanks for the invite, I bet we could catch em! I’ll have to come via ground travel tho, I do have some family in Iowa 

40 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

 And you are a far better angler than I am..

White bass angler maybe………..

 

[long island basser]

Best one of seven on my last trip fishing  in FL.

All caught on T-rigged super bug D Bomb.

Time to head north.

 

[DitchPanda]

37 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Flew?? I’m too scared to even get on a roller coaster much less an airplane!!! Thanks for the invite, I bet we could catch em! I’ll have to come via ground travel tho, I do have some family in Iowa 

White bass angler maybe………..

 

Where abouts?

[TnRiver46]

18 minutes ago, DitchPanda said:

Where abouts?

I don’t know, although I’ve heard them say it many times haha. Quad city? Quad cities? He’s in the army 

[DitchPanda]

5 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I don’t know, although I’ve heard them say it many times haha. Quad city? Quad cities? He’s in the army 

That's a haul..basically the complete opposite side of the state from me. Bout a 6hr drive.

[12poundbass]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

Flew?? I’m too scared to even get on a roller coaster much less an airplane!!! Thanks for the invite, I bet we could catch em! I’ll have to come via ground travel tho, I do have some family in Iowa 

White bass angler maybe………..

 

Wait, so you’re afraid to fly but you get up on those steep roofs to chase after critters?

[TnRiver46]

3 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

Wait, so you’re afraid to fly but you get up on those steep roofs to chase after critters?

Yes, i know it’s weird. I believe it’s motion related not heights related. I usually have to climb a 32 foot ladder every weekday 

 

I have flown many times before, never once enjoyed it 

[lunkerboss923]

Spinnerbaits, tubes, and 6th Sense Curve Finesse Squarebill (Tiger-Treuse). The squarebill landed that big girl. She measured from my elbow to the tip of my middle finger. She was fat and had a bloody tail. It's in the thick of spawn in Southeast Texas! 

[12poundbass]

5 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Yes, i know it’s weird. I believe it’s motion related not heights related. I usually have to climb a 32 foot ladder every weekday 

 

I have flown many times before, never once enjoyed it 

I’d fly to the moon before I climbed a 32’ ladder and I used to do roofing and siding. ?

[TnRiver46]

1 minute ago, 12poundbass said:

I’d fly to the moon before I climbed a 32’ ladder and I used to do roofing and siding. ?

You know, the moon is further than 32’…………. Hahaha

[keagbassr]

Jumped in the boat for a few hours after work today (3-6:30). Caught 6, 1 each on a jig and spinnerbait and 4 on a bladed jig with the best of those going 5-15.

[gim]

36 minutes ago, lunkerboss923 said:

Spinnerbaits, tubes, and 6th Sense Curve Finesse Squarebill (Tiger-Treuse). The squarebill landed that big girl. She measured from my elbow to the tip of my middle finger. She was fat and had a bloody tail. It's in the thick of spawn in Southeast Texas! 

Is that a super bowl ring on your left hand?!

[LrgmouthShad]

45 minutes ago, keagbassr said:

Jumped in the boat for a few hours after work today (3-6:30). Caught 6, 1 each on a jig and spinnerbait and 4 on a bladed jig with the best of those going 5-15.

Uh oh. The "Hammer" is back at it ?. Well done, heck yeah

[lunkerboss923]

3 hours ago, gimruis said:

Is that a super bowl ring on your left hand?!

My alma mater Texas Tech! Who just beat Notre Dame to advance to the Sweet 16! 

[Aaron_H]

10 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

I really need to work on my camera work because it looks like I'm trying to smother the lens with the fish in every photo I take in the kayak ??.

 

Fish selfies are definitely a challenge in and of themselves. Great catches, man, thanks for sharing.

[Jmurphy87]

Nothing special but some of my first fish of the year, I actually had my scale with me put completely forgot about it till I put the fish back into the water lol. The bigger one of the two came on a watermelon red fat ika, the smaller one came on a 1/16 oz Rapala original in clown. 

[Bluebasser86]

Saturday I had training from 6am-2pm. 10  minutes after training I made a few cast from the bank of the lake by my house and got 3 on a jerkbait with 2 being decent ones.

 

Went home and gathered my boys and loaded the boat. Got them out for a few hours and their first fish of the year.

 

 

Sunday I took my oldest to get his first trout. Did that with ease, plus a tiny lightning trout. I got my first smallmouth of the year and a solid largemouth on a homemade jig too.

[Aaron_H]

Had a few hours to fish this evening, did decent numbers but nothing with any real size. Ended up with 20 bass and 3 tilapia, about half the bass were chunky 1.75-2lbers, the rest were ~12 inches. Rain has the water raised about a foot or so, pushed the bank up about 4-5 feet in some spots. The bank here is usually a little steep right where it meets the water due to erosion from the plecos, this created a nice ledge today that the bass were pushed up against. I got a few in more open water that were busting on bait, but the overwhelming majority of them were caught running a lipless parallel to that ledge as close as I could get it. A few on the jerkbait as well.

This one was about the upper end of the fish I caught today, came in right at 2lb even.

 

Hung up my jerkbait a couple of hours in, thought it was a big submerged branch as I could feel it give slightly but couldn't get it unstuck. Finally coaxed the "branch" off the bottom and got it in, only to find I hung someone's old minnow trap. Gee, thanks. Got my lure back at least, and won't have to worry about that snag in the future.

 

[deep]

Got a Shimano World Minnow in the mail the other day, and I tried it out today. Impressed!

 

One of the best casting jerkbaits I own (and I have >40 different models from different manufacturers). I was making 45 - 50 yard casts with quite a bit of thumbing in a fairly stiff breeze! Suspends well right out of the box in high 40/ low 50 water. I like the hooks too, light wire and round bend.

I liked the flat sided flash; should be a good player once the water warms up a bit. It actually reminds me of the old Daiwa SP Minnow in some ways.

Caught on it the (probably only) 3 fish that moved up shallow in the afternoon sun. All small.

I like it enough to buy the deeper diving version soon.

 

Probed the depths for a while after that with a 1/2 oz football jig. Caught a few more, including a pretty nice one. Hard to feel bites on long casts in deep water with the wind, but 12# Tatsu was up to it. Been fishing Tatsu for ~10 years now, and don't see a reason to change.

 

 

[PhishLI]

I'm not sure what made me tie on a 6" GY senko to throw in 44 degree water, but I did. The problem was that it was actually a 6" BPS Stick-O. The action is OK, but it smells just like rubber. I had some pro Cure Craw scent so I slathered it up. I bought a pile of these things in bulk on sale and have not done well with them even though they look exactly like a watermelon black flake GY. On top of that I decided to work a part of a lake where I've had terrible luck in the past. I worked the Stinko slow-n-low near the front of a creek inlet and a stumpy chunk ate it. Then a few more cuties ate the Gantarel jr. OK for an unexpected quick after dinner sesh in a spot where I've taken untold whippings. #nomoreshame?

 

 

[GreenPig]

A few cold nights and a cool rain dropped the water temp and moved them but I was able to hook up with nine.

[TnRiver46]

On 3/20/2022 at 6:52 PM, DitchPanda said:

Where abouts?

I think I heard yesterday it was le Claire.